Kamis, 04 November 2010

Be focused and be focused

I forget what was behind me and set yourself up to what is in front of me. "

According to research, there are only about 11% of people in this world who are naturally able to be focused. The rest tend to be easily influenced and often are not persistent in its original purpose.

Maybe there are people who have a strong determination, but was less diligent. There is also a diligent but unfortunately easily influenced. There are even people who are very flamboyant, which is easy to switch attention, and quickly turned their attention to new things.

A divided attention to thwart the achievement of goals. Without consciously delayed the achievement of targets, experiencing stagnation, or even could deviate from its original destination. Not a favorable situation for an employee like you.

What are the barriers to stay focused?

1. Loss of motivation.
There is a true story about a man who lost motivation. He was very clever to get a master's scholarship abroad even nominated as a doctoral candidate. But after a study was rejected by the lecturer, he became frustrated, lose motivation and fail to stay focused with his ideals of employment. Experienced prolonged stress lead to mental disorders. Truly tragic, eventually he was found dead due to diarrhea after days locked herself in her room.

2. Easily influenced.
Humans have a pair of eyes, but only one focus. That's the miracle of creation. Imagine if each eye has its own focus or biased views. Like the facets of insect eyes that have a lot of reflection. You will be walking to and fro and hit a wall because of the influence of earlier views. It would be difficult to complete something to its conclusion if you lose focus. Only about 20% of the things within the person that affect focus, the rest is external influence.


3. Less diligent.
Persistent attitude is a combination of persistence and perseverance. Many things can make perseverance and focus is lost. Bored, bored with routine even always in a comfort zone or a sense of complacency, often making the focus becomes blurred. Because humans tend to chase you want is not that supposed to be achieved. You often get stuck on the process and not being consistent in the goals to be achieved. Losing focus also means wasting a lot of time and opportunity that is before you.


Train yourself to be focused


1. Develop self-mastery.
In the military world, sniper is a sniper. They are usually assigned to a special operation which requires skill to shoot in secret. With a target, once the shot must be well targeted. The main thing for the sniper is focused, has a maximum concentration and self-control of the prime. Directing a view on the target and ignore the things that can distract. Similarly, in carrying out your work, discipline and self-control make you focused and efficient in completing the work.

2. Developing perseverance.
Know the history of Abraham Lincoln. Failure after failure does not make him give up and lose the goal. The peak in 1832 when he became an unemployed. But the high spirits and perseverance to be able to devote themselves to nation and country, making it finally managed to elect as president of the United States in 1860. A strong desire to create his own chances. Perseverance will find its way in the end. That focus on the target.

3. Making the target achievement.
What are the goals you want to achieve? Make plans and targets for achieving goals can be achieved with more efficient and effective. Targets are the steps to the achievement of objectives in a focused and measurable. Make target spur you to stay focused on the target. Focused attitude held by the winning works, all the people who succeed and become experts in their fields. Focus is the bridge to success in your career.

Words of Wisdom
Goal is to determine what we will become.